Why Your Commute is RUINING Your Sleep 🚗💤 (Huberman)

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Getting your morning sunlight through a window is completely useless. Don't try and get this sunlight exposure through a windshield of a car or a window. It takes far too long. It's simply not going to trigger the relevant mechanisms. You would be standing there all day trying to get enough light into your eyes from the morning sunlight and by then the sun will have already moved from low solar angle to overhead >> [music] >> and it simply won't work for all sorts of mechanisms related to your circadian rhythm functions. Get outside. If the weather is really bad or for whatever reason safety reasons you cannot get outside, well then I suppose try and get near a window. That would be the last last resort, but you really want to get outside to get the sunlight exposure.

[00:00:38]And this is exactly why.